I used to use `ls -d FILE; echo $?' to test if a file exists. That,
however, fails with NetBSD 1.4 because there the ls program has a bug:
it doesn't set the exit status correctly.
Therefore, I have now switched to `test -e FILE; echo $?'. And now I
find that the Solaris /bin/sh has a test builtin which doesn't grok
`-e'. (/usr/bin/test on Solaris works, however.)
Ok. Another alternative would be to use `/usr/bin/test -e FILE; echo
$?'. But that doesn't work, because FreeBSD has /bin/test rather than
/usr/bin/test. And Linux has /usr/bin/test rather than /bin/test.
Solaris has both. And of course I cannot find out which `test' binary
to use until I can find out whether a file exists, and that I can't do
without a working `test' binary.
*wail* *whimper*
kai
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